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Dark Dungeons was released
December 1st, 2010.

Dark
Dungeons is an adaptation of a religious tract of the same name, written
by Jack
Chick in 1984. Like many of Chick's works, the tract has worked its
way into popular culture and has become a target for both emulation and
parody.

The tract follows a teenager named Debbie who, in the course of playing
the role-playing game Dark Dungeons, becomes a Satan worshipper and begins
practicing black magic on her father. Meanwhile, her friend Marcie, devastated
over the loss of her player character, commits suicide. Debbie finds the
body and realizes the terrible effect the game has had on her friends, but
is unable to stop playing. At the last minute, two Christians arrive, one
after the other, to preach to her, ultimately leading to her conversion
and her abandonment of Dark Dungeons.

Dark Dungeons, of course, is a thinly veiled pastiche of the classic Dungeons
and Dragons RPG, created in 1974 by the late Gary
Gygax and now published by Wizards
of the Coast. Older readers may remember the moral
panic that mushroomed
during the mid 1980s that blamed D&D and other role playing games, withoutmuchevidence,
for a host of social problems, particularly teen suicide. Those leading
the crusade argued that these games, and by implication fantasy literature
in general, led innocent youths into Satanism. The “Dark Dungeons”
tract comes directly out of this period and reflects many of these concerns.

A quick survey of the Internet will turn up variousparodies
of the tract. Boolean Union Studios’ version plays the material relatively
straight, because we think the inherently risible content speaks for itself.

Copyright note: The copyright to the original "Dark Dungeons" tract and all artwork belongs to Jack Chick Publications. Boolean Union Studios is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jack Chick Publications. Other than the original portions of the adapted screenplay, Boolean Union Studios does not claim this material as our own. The Dark Dungeons animation will never be sold for profit and will remain free for anyone to view, just as the original tract is. Boolean Union Studios believe that our use of this material is free speech and falls under fair use guidelines.

It also bears noting that others have produced works based on Chick publications not substantially different from what Boolean Union Studios is doing with Dark Dungeons: see "Hot Chicks".